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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 May 2018
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    People buy educational products aspirationally. Raise your hands if you've ever bought a book and never opened it. #MicroConf @adamwathan This is true, and discomfits many of us who sell training/etc products. You can enhance offering "gently pushing you to learn."

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      1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 May 2018
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        (I think there is a huge gap in expectations between folks who are *voraciously* self-directed learners and between the rest of the world, and guess who writes books.)

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      1. Jane Roberts‏ @redjane 2 May 2018
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        #MicroConf 👋 I am notoriously cheap about buying tech books (sooo expensive), but even I have a couple on the shelf that I must-get-to-some-day.

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      2. Vivek Ponnaiyan‏ @viveksworld 2 May 2018
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        If you buy books that you want to read right now and have it delivered via Amazon u will read em. The not reading problem occurs with “books I feel like I should have read” - never buy this category.

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        totally agree, buying needs to be an act of passion or it’ll never work

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      1. Lee Knowlton‏ @leeknowlton 2 May 2018
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        I don't think I've ever bought a book and not opened it. The attraction of an unopened book is too much for me to handle. Unfinished books though... Good to hear re intenet products. I have always felt uncomfortable about people buying my product but not taking advantage of it.

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        courses too

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      1. Phil Freo‏ @philfreo 3 May 2018
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        Same with SaaS products. Sometimes people buy because they aspiritationally want it to solve a problem and get sold on it, but then never put the work/process in to succeed. Then churn.

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        Done that many times. I'm happy to admit it; I feel no shame about that kind of purchasing behavior. It's about where I want to go.

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        A lot of people prefer touting an ideal over taking action. The first person to recommend headspace to me raved about it for months; when I finally tried it, I thanked them and told them how much I loved and used it. That’s when they admitted to never actually meditating with it.

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